Definition of Peble
Peb"ble (?), n. [AS.
papolstān; cf. L. papula pimple, mote. See
Stone.] 1. A small roundish stone or
bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water;
a pebblestone. "The pebbles on the hungry beach."
Shak.
As children gathering pebbles on the
shore. Milton.
2. Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as,
Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians.
Pebble powder, slow-burning gunpowder, in
large cubical grains. -- Scotch pebble,
varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony, etc., obtained from
cavities in amygdaloid.
Peb"ble, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Pebbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pebbling.] To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface
covered with small rounded prominences.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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